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Re: Teeny shack
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Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:54:19 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, David Eaton writes:
> Well, I started puttering with my bricks last night to start making some
> peasants' homes last night for NELUG's display TCS. I wanted to make a few
> shacks (like 3-5), but I also knew I wanted them to ULTIMATELY be in tan &
> brown.... two nicely rare colors. So here's my first attempt:
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> http://www.suave.net/~dave/images/shackfront.jpg
> http://www.suave.net/~dave/images/shackback.jpg
> http://www.suave.net/~dave/images/shackside.jpg
> http://www.suave.net/~dave/images/shackinside.jpg
Dave the "shack" looks great. Is this supposed to be a "home" or just a
shack/chicken coop? If it is a home is there any way to give them at least one
window? I realise it is tough seeing the bricks you are trying to work with
but even peasant's need a little daylight :-).
The forescant lighting is a little tough on photo's. I find Halogen works best
for me and in lew of that incandescant works OK if you have lots of them spread
all around the model to help reduce shadows.
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> I like the coloring (although the beautiful florecant lights of my kitchen
> give the pictures a yellowed look), but sadly, this pretty nearly exhausted my
> supply of brown and tan bricks. Actually, to be truthful, I still have a bunch
> more tan bricks, but they're all 6 wide or more (a bunch of 1x12's and 1x16's,
> etc)... I couldn't very easily do much with them in this model... Hence the
> beautiful hidden interior... I think if I want to continue making houses in
> this color scheme I'm going to need to stock up on Wild West sets... (they
> have some brown 1x1's and 1x1x5's as I recall? That's what I really need more
> of)
You are right about the Indian sets having the Brown 1x1's and 1x1x5's they
also have a lot of brown 2x2 rounds and a few 1x1 rounds. My TRU still has a
bunch of these Indian sets at a almost 50% clearance. I know the figs suck (I
don't know what to do with the one's I have, maybe the NELUG common bin?) but
the rest of the parts are pretty good and pretty standard. I know there are
tons of BURPs but hey every kingdom needs a mountain or two. :-). I think I am
going to pick up a couple more of these this weekend.
Another source of a little brown is the Polybag Adventure's set they have at
TCS this has 2 1x6 brown bricks and a 6x6 brown plate. Of course I am hoping
LEGO Direct will sell all bricks in all LEGO colors so this might not be a
worry in the future. We can all hope!
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> Anyway, I think I'll try it again tonight with white and black instead of tan
> and brown to see how that looks... Comments? Ideas?
I really like the tan and brown. It is definitly better for a peasants hut but
it is just way to tough to find :-(. Maybe in a years time we will all be able
to build a DkGray Castle or a Brown Barn but until then we will just have to
deal with what we've got. Come on LEGO Direct!
Eric Kingsley
The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/
View My Creations at:
http://www.nelug.org/members/kingsley/
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| (...) I thought about this briefly-- after all I do have one brown window which would look great... I think the thing I most wanted are brown shutters, though... having them red or blue or yellow or white just didn't quite look right. (The other (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| Well, I started puttering with my bricks last night to start making some peasants' homes last night for NELUG's display TCS. I wanted to make a few shacks (like 3-5), but I also knew I wanted them to ULTIMATELY be in tan & brown.... two nicely rare (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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